Byrns, Elinor
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-030
Overview
The Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament was active from 1930 to 1936, chiefly in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Through public opinion and personal contacts, PCTD supporters pressured Congress to support total disarmament, including passage of the Frazier Amendment outlawing war. Other objectives of the Committee included a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, opposition to all preparations and training for war (including ROTC), and support for...
Dates:
1930-1938
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
War Resisters' International Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-039
Overview
The War Resisters' International was founded at Bilthoven, Netherlands, in 1921 by representative pacifists from that country, Germany, Austria and Great Britain. The War Resisters' International was never more than a coordinating body in its relationship to affiliated groups.
Dates:
1923-1976
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Subject: Conscientious objection X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Conscientious objection 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters 1
- Nonviolence 1
- Pacifism 1
- Pacifism -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- Societies, etc. 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements 1
- Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
- Weapons industry -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Women and peace 1 + ∧ less
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